As participation in publicly-funded preschool programs steadily grows and pressure ramps up on states to prove that those programs are preparing low-income children for kindergarten, measuring ...

The results from this year's kindergarten readiness assessment (KRA), is a preview of how prepared pre-schools are to learn.A new state report shows more students enter kindergarten understanding the ...

STAMFORD — Parents who remember a trip to the pediatrician as the only required pre-kindergarten evaluation may be surprised to hear that today their kids are assessed on everything from literacy to ...

The predictive significance of early childhood behaviors may have been underestimated by up to 50 per cent due to inadequate assessment procedures, a new study suggests. The predictive significance of ...

As federal pressure for accountability standards moves into the preschool arena, it is important for states to rapidly develop processes that align preschool standards with K-12 standards and evaluate ...

As states move to expand public preschool programs—and seek to measure their effectiveness—they soon will have new guidance on how to design assessment and accountability systems appropriate for young ...

The Jaffrey-Rindge School District is using the Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP) assessment tool to track progress of all pre-school students, and is discussing how to fund the program in ...

The federal government's early childhood initiatives, which seek to improve the literacy and language skills of children from preschool through third grade, are raising standards and demanding ...

LAKELAND, FL (WTSP) -- A Lakeland preschool director is speaking out against a new set of standardized assessments for her 4-year-old students, and refuses to administer them at the risk of losing ...

The aim of this study was to examine in detail levels and patterns of physical activity in preschool children and the effects of gender and BMI on this activity. Two hundred and fifty-three children ...